<p>Mine, usually at least two concurrently, sometimes full-time and part-time, include:</p>
<p>Working the gift wrap counter in a store
Bank teller/supervisor
Retail sales (clothing)
Lab rat (cleaning stuff/setting stuff up for genetics labs – washing bottles, making fruit fly media, etc.)
Diagnostic lab work (bloodwork/urinanalysis, etc) and related computer work (data input)</p>
<p>You?</p>
<p>Nurses Aid (back breaking work; since age 16. I believe it firmed my resolve to not work like THAT for the rest of my life! ), Unit Clerk (at Children’s Hospital…it was quite… something when I got accepted to medical school…), Dorm “Extern” (while in medical school; mostly “hyperventilation” and Pelvic Inflammatory Disease)…I’m sure there were others.</p>
<p>Ward Clerk at a local hospital. Since I was a guy I also did some orderly duties. The job paid well and it frequently left plenty of time to study. It was also steady and dependable.</p>
<p>Work on campus: Dept of Health, PhysEd, Rec - audio-visual dept.</p>
<pre><code> off campus: p/t bank teller
liquor storeclerk
UPS sorter
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<p>me: cashier, and hospital lab</p>
<p>Husband: painter, busboy, waiter</p>
<p>son: cashier, stockboy (he had some other PR title), waiter</p>
<p>Usually two at a time, often overlapping with a third.</p>
<p>primarily: short order cook/grillman</p>
<p>additionally:</p>
<p>lab pickup driver, (prepping blood samples for testing, simple lab tests)
early am order processing (verifying shipping documents and labels)
handyman (residential construction and repair)
liquor store clerk</p>
<p>I spent two years at a local branch of the state flagship before going to the main campus. Lived at home, did full time school and still managed to work 50-60 hours a week. </p>
<p>Had a college friend who left after freshman year, and got a job on the Alaska pipeline. Two months after he left, he called, saying he could get me a guaranteed job as a line cook. My father talked me out of it. Friend came home 2 years later with seventy grand, bought a house and finished his degree.</p>
<p>I still regret not going.</p>
<p>I spent one summer washing test tubes with HCl in the biochemistry lab at college - yuk.
The next summer worked on the livestock farm - beef, sheep and pigs. Brought home a runt piglet and raised it.
The next two summer’s I milked cows. Split shift - 4 am-8 am and 12 pm-4 pm. Fun times.</p>
<p>Husband worked at a fish cannery - that was the worst. The scales stick to your arms and when they finally dry enough they brush off onto your girlfriend’s mother’s couch. She does still love him, though.
My worst - one summer at a place that silk-screened t-shirts. It was a mom and pop operation that probably was breaking all kinds of OSHA rules. Caught fire one afternoon when the guy cleaning the screens in the back room decided to have a smoke. Sidenote, one of the firefighters was one of my high school teachers making ends meet with a summer job…</p>
<p>On campus: dining hall, mail delivery in dorm, art library and general library.</p>
<p>Off campus: neighborhood corner store</p>
<p>Undergraduate – accounting clerk batching invoices and hand stamping numbers on the bills for overdue books and periodicals for the university; summer jobs selling pencils (lasted 1 week), seamstress.</p>
<p>Graduate school assistant to the editor of the university magazine – proofreading and keeping track of subscriptions; one summer working writing accounting procedure manual</p>
<p>Worked summers as a carhop at a root beer drive-in, seamstress in a bridal shop and in a fabric store.</p>
<p>Worked during school year on campus as tutor and seamstress in the theater dept.</p>
<p>Off campus: Arcade worker at amusement park, restaurant hostess/waitress, department store retail, computer programmer</p>
<p>On campus: Bus driver</p>
<p>Always 2 summer jobs (usually about 60 hrs/wk):</p>
<p>Throwing pizzas on weekends every summer.</p>
<p>Loading/Unloading Trucks (Stereo Equipment one summer, Chemicals another summer)</p>
<p>Inventory Clerk/Bookkeeper at a Chemical Plant.</p>
<p>Could always count the number of days off during the summer with one hand.</p>
<p>But I never worked during the school year.</p>
<p>I was a bartender back in the day when the drinking age was 18. I also waited tables, was an RA, worked for folks who owned a pizza chain (I actually did a LOT of different work for them), was an undergraduate teaching assistant for a professor, worked in the dining hall, and did summer “temp” work doing things like retail store inventories.</p>
<p>Grad school…I was a teaching assistant, sold Tupperware (ok…that was a low point in my life!!), and worked intermittently in the school library. </p>
<p>The very best of the lot in terms of pay was the bartending. I made more money doing that than I did in my first teaching job. I loved the work and I loved the people. The folks who owned that business (the pizza place and the bar) were terrific and basically made it possible for me to work AND finance my college education. I was very grateful to them.</p>
<p>Dining Hall
College Events Helper
Lab Rat (paid experiments run by our psychology department)
College Library
Homework Grader
Research Assistant</p>
<p>… haven’t had a single off-campus job yet (while in college).</p>
<p>Usually more than one. Always at the cafeteria, which paid for some of the food as well. Some jobs that were work study on campus that had limited hours. Worked at the student bar and entertainment center as well. Waitressed whihc was so lucrative. Also tutored and taught some programs. </p>
<p>Lots of us worked then, and there did not seem to be any limits advised on work. S3’s school does not want first term freshmen working at all. S2 has few hours to work during school year with production work a requirement. S1 was swimming pretty much year round which precluded work during school year. They all worked, work, during the summer, many, many hours as I do not encourage for pay programs once kids are in highschool and definitiely not for college. Our kids all have had nice amounts of money saved for college as a result of that and paid a portion of their college costs.</p>
<p>Thumper,</p>
<p>I guess you worked in a location where you had to be of age to serve. In the locale of the pizza place I worked, you could serve at 16 as long as you were within direct sight of someone over 21, so I got lots of experience carding folks much older than me.</p>
<p>doing EKG’s in our small town hospital
work study job in the on campus career placement center
Nurse tech in large urban hospital</p>
<p>College jobs: worker at a youth shelter, daycare worker</p>
<p>most lucrative during summers at home: waitress at a local diner
during grad school: waitress at a bar</p>
<p>started at the on-campus food service.
then a gig at Sno White Drive-In
and finally hit the jackpot waiting tables at Denny’s in Santa Cruz.</p>